From Russia with knowledge

среда, 12 января 2022 г.

I live in Russia and do not know much about the western countries and their customs; besides that, my English is not good enough. So, I excuse for any awkwardness in my blog and for bad English.
The aim of my blog is to promote the ideas of internet democracy. I believe that these ideas could really make the world better, if they are implemented.
Most impotant articles:

The most simple of the
ideas proposed, but very important, is the “crowdfunding multiplication”: if someone earns by crowdfunding, the state or some funds would give him
additional money, multiplying his financing. Applying this scheme needs eliminating some
problems – corruption (self-funding) and “sectarian” projects, which will be popular only among some minority who know about them. I think that these
problems can be efficiently solved, and the projects which earn by crowdfunding
in such a way will be able to efficiently fight corruption, ecological problems, unfair advertising, etc.Previously this blog contained an article about Russia and Ukraine, but I decided to delete it from the blog, because it has become dangerous to live in Russia and write about politics.

пятница, 30 марта 2018 г.

Currently in most countries, including
formally democratic ones, the freedom of speech is violated: main mass media
(TV) manipulate the social consciousness.

It seems quite convincing for me that
independent mass media are in principle impossible. Such mass media must
criticize the power, but it is impossible to criticize the power without being
punished by it. At the same time, democracy can be real only when the mass
media in country criticize the authority.

I think that a kind of salvation for this
problem can be as follows: the owner of any popular mass media should get the legislative
immunity. If a blogger gets more than a million followers, he should become
immune to any prosecution. If such rule is implemented, it will become
important to break the legislative immunity of a blogger by posting “dislikes”
to him. Once again: there must be a website where any citizen can post a like
or dislike to any other person, and a person who gets a million likes less than
half a million of dislikes would automatically get the legislative immunity.

I am sure that the disadvantages of such rule
– the possibility for mass media owners to do some crimes – are mostly
unimportant in comparison with its main advantage – better freedom of speech
for the country.

I believe that a more well-grounded salvation
of the problem of absence of freedom of speech is as follows: independent mass
media, which can criticize the power of a country, should be located in another
country. More precisely, in each country there should be placed the mass media
which will be able to criticize the power of another country.

A very important point is that all these mass
media must have the possibility to earn by direct payments of their viewers of
readers.

The US foreign policy widely uses the
democratic peace theory: according to this theory, democratic countries usually
do not engage wars with each other:

This politics could become much more
efficient, if US imposed a kind of an agreement of a “common informational
space” with each country. This means, for example, that US mass media will have
the possibility to show their content to Russian people (and earn by direct
payments), while Russian mass media will have the same possibility to show
their content to American people (and earn by direct payments). This could be
the best possibility to achieve the freedom of speech for both countries.

Many people do not still realize that the
control of mass media gives a ruler the possibility to form any social consciousness
he wants. Some apologists of health promotion say that “we are what we eat”; I
don’t strongly support this thesis, but I believe that the thesis “we are what
information we get” is mostly true. When a dictator controls the mass media in
his country, he easily persuades his nation that the “enemies” of his country
are the main reason of all problems in the country.

The propaganda does not rely on fake news;
the fake news is rather a “symptom” of the propaganda. The main way of
propaganda is passing over the silence and pulling the information out the
context. The reality is arranged in such a way that showing a part of a reality
to a viewer gives a way to persuade him in anything.

This means that a person who views a
propaganda from two opposite sources is able to remain unbiased. For example,
those Americans who watch Russia Today together with American TV channels are
more sober-minded than those who watch American channels only (while RT, of course,
is a propagandistic channel).

The freedom of speech can be reached some day,
if the Internet beats the television. In this case the whole world would
experience a mass sobering, and people will realize that a new society should
be built.

The rise of cryptocurrencies helps to reach
this situation, because the cryptocurrencies would make the Internet
commercial, and correspondingly it will become more powerful.

At the moment there are some independent mass
media, which criticize the powers of big countries and earn via bitcoins. In
particular, the Wikileaks project is such a mass media. When Wikileaks started
publishing the information which discredited the US authorities, these authorities
blocked the flow of the crowdfunding donations which supported it. The banks
refused to send money to the Wikiliaks owner, web money like Paypal blocked
them too. The only way for the Wilikeaks to survive was switching to bitcoin
crowdfunding.

A similar situation exists in Russia.
Currently there are opposition projects which earn via the bitcoins: “Fund of
struggle with the corruption” of Alexey Navalniy, Wiki-project lurkmore.to
similar to the American Encyclopedia Dramatica, some Ukrainian channels on Youtube,
etc.

So, it seems for me that the Internet and the
cryptocurrencies will save the freedom in the world.

суббота, 24 марта 2018 г.

Currently
in the whole word (except probably North Korea) the consumer society
is dominating. This is shown, for example, by the fact, that most people are
anxious very much about their revenue and prosperity. As far as I know, there
was not such anxiety in 19th century. The realities of our century,
for example, are that during the wars people often suffer from economical
sanctions more, than from the military operations themselves.

Some people are trying to find out why such a
situation has appeared. I have heard such interpretation from some people in Russia: “previously
they wanted us to become communist builders, and now they want us to become
consumers”.I think that in reality the reason for emergence
of the consumer society is unexpectedly banal: such mass media, as TV channels
and radio stations, are obliged to put a lot of advertisement in their content,
because they do not have other sources of revenue. And the excess of advertisement
forms the consumer society itself.The first mass media were newspapers, which
earned on direct sales. When radio and television appeared, these mass media
appeared to have no such possibility of earnings – you can not directly pay for
viewing a TV program. Because of that, TV and radio had to earn by the
advertisements only. This problem in principle could be solved organizationally,
in governments instituted a TV tax, calculated the ratings of TV channels and
paid the channels a part of this tax, proportional to the channel’s rating. But
this task proved too difficult for the politicians.The same problem persists for the mass media
in the web. Despite there are such web money as Paypal, currently they can’t be
used for paying for viewing a content in the web. It’s a pity that we can’t pay
Google for cutting of the advertisement at Youtube. I suppose, the possibility
to pay for Youtube is not available because of some bureaucratic obstacles:
maybe, the US
laws do not include such source of revenue, correspondingly Google can’t pay
taxes for it, and without the taxes the revenue becomes illegal. In Russia in 75%
cases we can’t purchase new films, music, audiobooks in the web, and have to
download them from torrents – I suppose the reasons are similar.

I expect, that if the bitcoins (or, more
precisely, the cryptocurrencies) will become the approved money, all these
problems will be solved automatically. The Web will become commercial, and
correspondingly its quality will become higher. People will pay with the
bitcoins for any content instead of watching the obtrusive ads, and the “power
of advertisement” will be overthrown. A good video concerning the subject: "history of stuff":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GorqroigqM

In
this video it is said, that the consumer society appeared mainly in
1950th. This was the time when television became popular, so this video
confirms the idea of the connection between the consumer society and TV ads.

вторник, 12 декабря 2017 г.

Today I hope greatly that the Brexit will
succeed and England
will become independent of the EU, at least to significant extent. If so,
possibly England will become
the only country for me into which I will be able to emigrate from Russia.

Previously I thought that Ukraine could become such a country, but after
getting more information I became very disappointed in Ukraine. I
think, Ukrainian people are almost like Russians, with similar mental problems
and irrationality, though they probably have a more right ideology. One of the
visible cases of Ukrainian irrationality is their attitude to pro-democratic
opposition in Russia:
it seems that many of the Ukrainians do not distinguish between people like me
and “bad” Russians, which are responsible for the sufferings of Ukrainian
people. There are many other evidences of the Ukrainian irrationality, and nevertheless
I hope that a kind of “mass sobering” will eventually take place in Ukraine. Maybe
some day this “mass sobering” will happen in Russia too.

I am sure that the whole world is degrading
more and more. Many people in Russia
believe that the Europe is quickly degrading and going to fall, like the Roman empire 1500 years before. And if Britain
succeeds leaving EU, it will possibly become the place of birth of a new,
healthy society.

Muslim migration is an evident problem of the
Europe. People from Muslim countries settle in
Europe and are not being assimilated into the European
ethnic majority; otherwise, the Muslims assimilate European people instead. The
Muslim minority have a greatly higher birth rate than the indigenous Europeans.

Not all Muslims are terrorists, but almost
all terrorists are Muslims. I am afraid that the Islam can insensibly come to
power into Europe, because the European
politicians will be afraid of doing things which are not approved by the Muslims.

Some European politicians say that the
Europeans should make some concessions to Muslime, otherwise their actions can
provoke terrorism. From the point of view of the Muslims, this looks like that:
“we settle in your countries and you should fulfill our wishes, otherwise we
will kill your politicians”.

From the point of view of the Russians,
another big problem of the Europe is the
“homophilic” politics. I am not a homophobe, but I think that gay parades,
where gays are publicly kissing and dancing naked, are big violence for
heterosexual people. People in Russia
call Europe “Gayrope”. I think that both sides
in this dispute are not right – the “propaganda of homosexuality” in the West
and the “Homophobic propaganda” in Russia.

It is difficult for me to ground logically my
opinion, that the trend to give the gays the right to publicly exhibit their
orientation is a mine for the whole Europe.
However, I am sure that this trend was one of the reasons of the civil war in Eastern Ukraine. The results of the Eurovision contest in
2014 greatly discredited the democracy for Russian people, and
people in Donbass region got strongly anti-european political views. In our
web, this picture was often shown:

I think that there are many other timebombs
which can blast Europe and the entire Western
civilization some time later. The most fundamental problem is the following:
all nations in history, who lived in richness and comfort, became weak and were
eventually conquered by less rich nations. I hope that the humanity will
finally realize this problem and find ways to solve it. Some Russian bloggers,
respected by me, call the salvation of this problem as “moderalism ideology”.